{"id":25693,"date":"2015-10-08T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=25693"},"modified":"2015-10-07T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T19:42:43","slug":"a-strange-nuit-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/10\/08\/a-strange-nuit-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Nuit on Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"Unless you've been living under a rock, you probably know that Nuit Blanche, an all night contemporary art event that turns the streets of Toronto into an art gallery, took place this weekend. Nuit Blanche is one of my absolute favourites events of the year, and when I heard that this year U of T would be one of the exhibit zones, I knew I couldn't miss it.\r\n\r\n\"photo\"photo<\/a>\r\n\r\nMy first stop was UTS (University of Toronto Schools) where Remembering the Future<\/strong> was hosted. This interactive fibre and video piece\u00a0was\u00a0created in part by the students of UTS, and had to deal with teenage fantasy and high school nostalgia.\r\n\r\n\"photo<\/a>\r\n\r\nMy next stop was the Bata Shoe Museum, which may not technically be a part of U of T, but sits in the centre of campus. The Bata Shoe Museum featured\u00a0EMPREINTES<\/strong> (above) <\/em>and Shoes That Line The Lane<\/strong> (below).\u00a0<\/em>EMPREINTES<\/strong> was comprised of carbon casts of shoes, and carried messages by school children regarding their carbon footprint.\u00a0Shoes That Line The Lane<\/strong> was one of my favourite pieces of the night, explored our strange custom of hanging shoes off power lines, as well as the memories and\u00a0significance\u00a0we associate with\u00a0items of clothing.\r\n\r\n\"photo<\/a>\r\n\r\nFrom there I headed to OISE, which hosted\u00a0Time of the Empress<\/strong>, <\/em>a piece that explored the cycle of growth and decay with images of modern buidings\u00a0being created and then destroyed.\r\n\r\n\"projections<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nFrom OISE I headed down the car free street to the ROM. One of my favourite things about Nuit Blanche is getting to explore the\u00a0Toronto at night, since usually when I'm out at night I'm trying to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible.\r\n\r\n\"photo<\/a>\r\n\r\n\"DSC06536\"Outside the ROM's old planetarium was a new pop up planetarium that Zero Hour<\/strong>, a video piece which\u00a0flipped north to south,\u00a0showing astronomical images of the sourthern sky as well as catastrophic weather from the southern hemisphere.\r\n\r\n\"DSC06554\"\"DSC06545\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nAfter a relaxing stroll through Phillosopher's Walk, I ended up at Hart House, where Muscle Memory<\/strong> was taking place. Muscle Memory was a fluid dance and drama performance piece, which explored how memories can affect our physical bodies, and how our bodies carry the weight of these memories.\r\n\r\n\"DSC06621\"\r\n\r\nMy favourite part of this piece were\u00a0the sticky notes that covered the walls. Each note had a memory written on it by a member of the audience.\r\n\r\n\"DSC06632\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nMy final destination was the UC quad, where my absolute favourite piece of the night was.\u00a0<\/em>I've Got Sunshine on a Cloudy Day<\/strong> was an illuminated text piece, which filled the quad with sunlight in the middle of the night. I loved how joyful and simple this piece was, and I really wish that they made it a permanent part of the quad.\r\n\r\n\"DSC06664\"<\/a>\r\n\r\nDid you attend Nuit Blanche this year? What was your favourite part of it?\u00a0<\/em>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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